419 scam: "RGF"<mbd_metals@yahoo.com> Re:

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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
- rivera.finance@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "RGF" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <rivera.finance@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 07:57:25 +0800
Subject: Re:

Dear respected Beneficiary,

Urgent Directives!!

We are the United Nations Capital Master Plan And Payment Bureau established by the World Financial Service Authority United States Of America / United Kingdom.This body was set up to discover an unpaid fund being owed by Governments or Corporate bodies all over the world through Contract Payment, Inheritance,and Lottery Funds etc...

It will interest you to know that we have discovered an unpaid/unclaimed sum of US$6.8million USD in your favor and a mandate has been given by United Nations Capital Master Plan to ensure that this fund gets to you without delay.

We have made a special payment arrangement to remit this fund to you through a bank to bank telegraphic wire transfer method or Alternatively via a security company.

Note this security code(UNCMP/291KB75),We advise you keep this security code personal/secret and provide to the Public Information Officer, Mr Werner Schmidt via email (rivera.finance@gmail.com).

Thanks.

Yours Faithfully,

Mr. Michael Adlerstein
Assistant Secretary-General and Executive Director
United Nations Capital Master Plan
Room L-1B-102 New York, NY 10017, USA.

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